Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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NFER sample from year 2 pupils
Wed 27 Mar 2024Dear Parent/Carer
Trialling key stage 1 national curriculum English reading assessment materials
We are writing to let you know that your child’s school will be trialling national curriculum assessment materials for key stage 1 in English reading. The National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) is doing this work for the Standards and Testing Agency (STA), which is part of the Department for Education. Each year the Standards and Testing Agency will trial potential future national curriculum tests with a representative sample of children and schools across the country.
This trial plays a critical role in developing tests that accurately measure pupils’ attainment and progress and ensure that individual groups are neither advantaged or disadvantaged. Although KS1 national curriculum tests are now optional, there is still a legal requirement for selected schools to participate in trials. Pupils will complete these assessments on a set date during the period 15 to 26 April 2024. This project is confidential so no report of this work will identify any school or pupil that participates. Pupils should not be under any additional stress by helping with this research and trialling. The purpose of these trials is to ‘test the tests’ and not the children. Our test administrators engage with the children and explain that they are helping with research, they are often asked their opinion of the questions. Pupils’ background data will be collected from and confirmed with the school and will be used by STA in their analysis of the trial. The privacy notice at www.gov.uk/government/publications/privacy-notice-key-stage?1-and-key-stage-2-item-validation-trials-and-technical-pre-tests sets out compliance with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to ensure pupil data is securely processed. As these are tests in the development stage, schools do not receive results from these assessments. Further information about these trials is available on our website www.nfer.ac.uk/for?schools/participate-in-research/participate-in-research-projects/2024-key-stage-1- and-key-stage-2-sta-technical-pre-tests
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Christmas Jumper Day 7th December
Mon 04 Dec 2023Dear all,
We would like to invite you to participate in our festive Jumper Day on Wednesday 7th December. By wearing your most festive knitwear you will be supporting Save the Children, a charity supporting children in the UK and around the world. To donate, please go to:
Essendine's Christmas Jumper Day is raising money for Save The Children!
Thank you!
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Years 5 and 6 radio show with the Go Live Theatre Project airs online!
Wed 19 Jul 2023Year 5 and year 6 had the opportunity over the past few weeks to work with an exciting theatre project which enabled them to plan, record and produce their own radio show. In small workshops, the children learned how to write scripts, deliver lines and record ambient sounds. The result of which we can now proudly present here:
Essendine subtitles (canva.com)
What a fantastic show, we hope you enjoy! Well done to all involved and a huge thank you to the Go Live Theatre Project!
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New Website Launched!
Thu 04 May 2023Welcome to our brand new school website! We have created the website to keep parents up to date with school news and notices, and to showcase some of the great things our pupils are achieving. The website is extremely easy to edit by all staff at the school, so check back soon for new updates!
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